KUALA LUMPUR: Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar yesterday confirmed that no training camp of the Daesh militant group existed in Malaysia.
He said, however, Malaysia should take precautionary measures following claims that a training camp of a militant group was found in the southern Philippines that openly supported the Daesh ideology.
“The militant group training camp is not Daesh’s training camp but they are found to have expressed their open support for the Daesh and this is seen as dangerous,” he said.
He told this to reporters after attending a function related to ASEANAPOL here on the possibility of the existence of a Daesh training camp for adults or children in the country.
On Tuesday Bukit Aman Special Branch director Datuk Seri Mohamad Fuzi Mohd Harun revealed that at least eight Malaysian children were recruited and trained to be Daesh fighters in several camps in Syria and Iraq.
Khalid said efforts to bring back these children were difficult as their minds had been poisoned by Daesh ideology.
But he said the police would continue to stop Malaysians planning to go to countries like Syria from pursuing militant linked training and knowledge there.
Khalid said all quarters, including Islamic religious schools needed to be cautious so as not to be influenced by the Daesh ideology. — Bernama